Balkans vs Adriatic - What's the difference?
balkans | adriatic |
A geographical region in the southeast of Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Kosovo, Croatia, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece and sometimes Romania.
* 2002 — Dennis P. Hupchick, The Balkans: From Constantinople to Communism , p104
Of or pertaining to the
* 1594 — , i 2
The Adriatic Sea, an extension of the Mediterranean Sea located between Italy and the Dalmatian coast of the Balkans.
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* 1946 — , (5 March)
balkans
English
(wikipedia Balkans)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- As the Ottomans' victories in the Balkans multiplied, increasing numbers of Anatolian warriors flocked to their ranks, and their territorial conquests grew.
Usage notes
Used with the definite article (the).Synonyms
* (geographical region) Balkan PeninsulaDerived terms
* Balkan * Balkanism * Balkanizeadriatic
English
(wikipedia Adriatic)Adjective
(-)- She moves me not, or not removes, at least,
Affection's edge in me, were she as rough
As are the swelling Adriatic seas:
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Her husband sail'd upon the Adriatic ,
And made some voyages, too, in other seas,
- A strange story comes from the Adriatic .
- From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic , an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
